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Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond, and James May attempt the most biologically diverse and politically tense route in South America—from the Amazon rainforest to the Pacific coast—but this time, every mechanical failure, cartel warning, and altitude sickness episode is shown in full, unfiltered chaos. The Altitude Battle Reviewers note that it "had
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